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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Online Makeovers for Baby Boomers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We have been living in Montana for the past 5 years and I am not supri sexshop to find it #3 on the &quot;worst&quot; list. Considering a sexy shopmove to Idaho to escapthe high cost of living a low income in MT. There may not be a sales tax here but they get you if you own property!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[marquesthomas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:41:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shortage of Engineers...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nice article!! Having been an engineer now for nearly 30 years, I have to admit I am still totally in love with my profession. Yes, there have been difficult times, yes I have been laid off, but darn it, I love it.For the last seven or eight years I have been fortunate enough to be working on a freelance basis as a consultant.  In this role I have had the opportunity to come into contact with many young engineers.  The sad truth is that the state of their education is appalling to say the least.  Most of them have no understanding of what they are doing.  They have been taught engineering more or less parrot like and lack an appreciation for what it is really all about.The profession itself is, in my opinion, in dire straits.  There are simply not enough people being trained and those that are being trained have often selected engineering as a second or even third choice.  While I agree wholeheartedly that you should do something that you find stimulating, I think that engineering as a profession &quot;undersells&quot; itself badly.  Certainly where I originally come from (South Africa) this is definitely the case.Kids today go where the glamour and the money is, and it's not in engineering, sad but true, and therein lies the problem.Until engineering is seen to be a &quot;glamorous&quot; profession and until engineers earn what they are really worth, things will not change.  As an earlier poster noted, Government replaces engineers with &quot;scientific advisors&quot; on the basis that they can do engineering.  Mmmmph.  I have seen enough design work done by academics to last me a lifetime.  The premise is definitely badly flawed. Anyway, complaining was not the aim of this post, the aim was to say that I love my profession and I make a point of telling people (particularly young people) that at each opportunity that I have.BTW, my father is also an engineer and at 80 his mind is still as sharp as a pin.  He shuns using calculators like the plague!! I definitely think there is some kind of link...Long live the Engineers!!!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:48:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: The engineering mind and longevity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't know what sort of guidance about their choice of profession young people get today. I do know that my father encouraged me to choose one that I might enjoy and that might do my fellowmen some good. Although quite good in math, I chose the humanities. A number of my colleagues, however, chose various types of engineering. At our 50th high school class reunion this past year, I was surprised that so many of my &quot;engineering&quot; friends had been _very happy_ in their career choices. I'm certain they did not choose their field because they felt a national need for engineers. Whatever self-motivation they might have had, they must have been encouraged, perhaps challenged, by their high school teachers and university faculty. What sort of encouragement, challenge, or other incentives are our students getting now? Then too, our role models were perhaps quite different then.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brambeus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:31:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The engineering mind]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;He went about the task like the engineer he has always been, measuring twice and cutting once.&quot; My father, an organ builder, taught me that practice and as a retired engineer I still use that technique. As a mechanical and electrical engineer I often worked with civil engineers and found much in common in our logical approach to problems.In the UK as in USA the engineering professions are neglected. Our Government has decided that they do not need an Engineering Adviser since they have a Scientific Adviser who it is alleged can cover engineering though as an academician he has never done any engineering.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:46:06 -0700</pubDate>
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